Politifact.com: Stories mentioning Tammy Baldwinhttp://www.politifact.com/personalities/tammy-baldwin/Stories or blog posts about Tammy Baldwin from Politifact.comen-usMon, 02 Feb 2015 13:49:17 -0500The High Five: New and old Scott Walker items among the most popularhttp://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/article/2015/feb/02/high-five-new-and-old-scott-walker-items-among-mos/We haven&rsquo;t studied it, but we think there might be pent-up demand for Pants on Fire. Our evidence? The PolitiFact Wisconsin item that got the most page-views in January 2015 was one about Gov. Scott Walker that got a POF. It was our first Pants on Fire rating in six months.&nbsp; Click, click, click. In answering a question about the importance of a presidential candidate having foreign policy experience, Walker said leadership is more important. And he made this claim: &quot;Documents released from the Soviet Union&quot; show &quot;the Soviet Union started treating&quot; President Ronald Reagan more seriously after Reagan fired ... <a href="/wisconsin/article/2015/feb/02/high-five-new-and-old-scott-walker-items-among-mos/">>>More</a>Mon, 02 Feb 2015 13:49:17 -0500http://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/article/2015/feb/02/high-five-new-and-old-scott-walker-items-among-mos/Fact-checking state Democratshttp://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/article/2014/jun/05/fact-checking-state-democrats/Wisconsin is second in the nation in losing jobs? Milwaukee is second-highest in the recovery of children from sex trafficking? In Wisconsin, a woman earns 80 cents for every $1 a man earns? We&rsquo;ve fact-checked some striking claims from Wisconsin Democrats in recent weeks. With the state party holding its annual convention June 6 and 7, 2014, in Wisconsin Dells, we decided to collect the latest ones. We did a similar round-up of our 10 latest factchecks on Wisconsin Republicans ahead of the GOP state convention in May 2014. The Democrats&rsquo; keynote speaker is Madison School Board member and former ... <a href="/wisconsin/article/2014/jun/05/fact-checking-state-democrats/">>>More</a>Thu, 05 Jun 2014 08:58:00 -0400http://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/article/2014/jun/05/fact-checking-state-democrats/Obama on Wisconsin’s Truth-O-Meterhttp://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/article/2014/jan/30/obama-wisconsins-truth-o-meter/We welcome President Barack Obama, fresh off his State of the Union speech, to Wisconsin Jan. 30, 2014 with a look back at where he&rsquo;s been on our Truth-O-Meter. We&rsquo;re revisiting eight statements rated by PolitiFact Wisconsin that were either made by Obama or were made about him by someone else. All were made in 2012 or 2013. The president, after overnighting in Milwaukee, is scheduled to tour a GE gas engine plant in the Milwaukee suburb of Waukesha (without any greeting from that city&rsquo;s mayor). The economy is expected to be the focus of his remarks. OK, hit rewind. ... <a href="/wisconsin/article/2014/jan/30/obama-wisconsins-truth-o-meter/">>>More</a>Thu, 30 Jan 2014 05:00:00 -0500http://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/article/2014/jan/30/obama-wisconsins-truth-o-meter/In Context: Scott Walker's "healthy balance" remarkhttp://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/article/2013/nov/29/context-scott-walkers-healthy-balance-remark/Gov. Scott Walker caused a reverberation among liberals when, while plugging his new book, he used a seemingly innocuous term: &quot;Healthy balance.&quot; LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) advocates were especially put off, as these headlines show: Wisconsin governor defends ban on same-sex marriage as &quot;healthy balance&quot; of LGBT rights -- Think Progress (liberal blog) Funny definition of &quot;healthy balance&quot; you got there, Scotty -- Daily Kos (liberal blog) Wisconsin governor says gay marriage ban contributes to &quot;healthy balance&quot; -- Advocate.com (LGBT news) Advocate.com opined that &quot;Walker doesn&#39;t see any contradiction in state law that prohibits someone from being fired ... <a href="/wisconsin/article/2013/nov/29/context-scott-walkers-healthy-balance-remark/">>>More</a>Fri, 29 Nov 2013 14:54:25 -0500http://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/article/2013/nov/29/context-scott-walkers-healthy-balance-remark/High Five for October: Obamacare gets hitshttp://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/article/2013/nov/04/high-five-october-obamacare-gets-hits/Good thing our website worked. By a wide margin, the PolitiFact Wisconsin article that got the most page-views in October 2013 was a roundup of 10 fact-checks about the Affordable Care Act. We published that item, with a strong assist from our colleagues at PolitiFact National, two days before what turned out to be the&nbsp;failed launch of the Obamacare online health insurance marketplace. The item included previously rated claims from three Wisconsin pols. Finishing in second place was our first-ever item on&nbsp;Mary Burke, the newly announced Democratic candidate for governor. We rated as&nbsp;Half True her statement that Wisconsin had 84,000 ... <a href="/wisconsin/article/2013/nov/04/high-five-october-obamacare-gets-hits/">>>More</a>Mon, 04 Nov 2013 12:26:12 -0500http://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/article/2013/nov/04/high-five-october-obamacare-gets-hits/Testing Obamacare on the Truth-O-Meterhttp://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/article/2013/sep/29/testing-obamacare-truth-o-meter/The Affordable Care Act reaches a milestone on Oct. 1, 2013, when health insurance marketplaces that were set up as part of the law begin enrolling people. Many claims on both sides of the political aisle have been made about President Barack Obama&rsquo;s signature legislative accomplishment, which has been implemented in phases since becoming law in March 2010. &nbsp;&nbsp; This next phase of Obamacare presents a good opportunity, factcheck-wise, to review where we&rsquo;ve been. So here, in no particular order, are 10 Obamacare claims rated by PolitiFact National and PolitiFact Wisconsin. Rationing of care 1. The health care law rations ... <a href="/wisconsin/article/2013/sep/29/testing-obamacare-truth-o-meter/">>>More</a>Sun, 29 Sep 2013 21:00:00 -0400http://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/article/2013/sep/29/testing-obamacare-truth-o-meter/Introducing the High Five: A look at our most-clicked items for May http://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/article/2013/jun/04/new-feature-our-most-clicked-items-may/Today we introduce a new feature: the High Five. We&rsquo;ll recap the five PolitiFact Wisconsin items that received the most page-views at PolitiFactWisconsin.com during the previous month. Here they are for May 2013: 1. Hillary Clinton and Ron Johnson The Truth-O-Meter is the bread-and-butter of PolitiFact. But occasionally we put it aside in favor of In Context, a feature that gives perspective to a statement that gets widespread attention. Our top item in May was an In Context article on an exchange between then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee ... <a href="/wisconsin/article/2013/jun/04/new-feature-our-most-clicked-items-may/">>>More</a>Tue, 04 Jun 2013 09:00:00 -0400http://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/article/2013/jun/04/new-feature-our-most-clicked-items-may/Report cards for Ted Cruz, Tammy Baldwin, Tim Kainehttp://www.politifact.com/texas/article/2012/nov/07/report-cards-ted-cruz-tammy-baldwin-tim-kaine/It shouldn&rsquo;t surprise that we&rsquo;ve built a Truth-O-Meter report card for Ted Cruz, the Houston lawyer and tea-party favorite who sailed to victory for the U.S. Senate seat long held by Kay Bailey Hutchison. But two other Senate newcomers come with PolitiFact-checked histories. U.S. Rep. Tammy Baldwin, the Democrat who defeated former Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson for the Senate seat being relinquished by Herb Kohl, was tracked on the hustings by our colleagues at PolitiFact Wisconsin. Tim Kaine, the Democrat who beat a fellow former governor to win in Virginia, has been watched by PolitiFact Virginia. Unlike Cruz, neither Kaine ... <a href="/texas/article/2012/nov/07/report-cards-ted-cruz-tammy-baldwin-tim-kaine/">>>More</a>Wed, 07 Nov 2012 10:44:02 -0500http://www.politifact.com/texas/article/2012/nov/07/report-cards-ted-cruz-tammy-baldwin-tim-kaine/Tommy vs. Tammy III: Our US Senate debate rounduphttp://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/article/2012/oct/26/tommy-vs-tammy-iii-our-senate-debate-roundup/In the final U.S. Senate debate, Republican Tommy Thompson and Democrat Tammy Baldwin stuck much closer to the truth in the first half, before falling back on some far less accurate attacks late in the debate. Here&rsquo;s a recap of how PolitiFact Wisconsin and PolitiFact National have rated some of the key claims that came up in the Oct. 26, 2012 debate. Legislative accomplishments Thompson said Baldwin had done little in Congress, saying, &quot;she passed three bills&quot; in nearly 14 years. We rated a similar claim from the GOP primary by Republican Jeff Fitzgerald as Mostly True, while noting that ... <a href="/wisconsin/article/2012/oct/26/tommy-vs-tammy-iii-our-senate-debate-roundup/">>>More</a>Fri, 26 Oct 2012 21:59:10 -0400http://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/article/2012/oct/26/tommy-vs-tammy-iii-our-senate-debate-roundup/Tommy v. Tammy II: Senate debate rounduphttp://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/article/2012/oct/18/fact-checking-tommy-v-tammy-ii/We&#39;ve previously fact checked many of the claims made by Tammy Baldwin and Tommy Thompson during the Oct. 18, 2012 debate. Here&rsquo;s a sampling from the lively debate in Wausau. &quot;Obamacare&quot; and Medicare: Thompson, the former Republican governor, told the Democratic congresswoman: &quot;You stole $716 billion from Medicare. You took it out of that and used it for &lsquo;Obamacare.&rsquo;&quot; Thompson&rsquo;s reference was to Baldwin&rsquo;s support of President Barack Obama&rsquo;s health care reform law. PolitiFact National rated as Mostly False a similar claim by Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, who said Obama &quot;robbed&quot; Medicare of $716 billion for the reform law. ... <a href="/wisconsin/article/2012/oct/18/fact-checking-tommy-v-tammy-ii/">>>More</a>Thu, 18 Oct 2012 22:09:12 -0400http://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/article/2012/oct/18/fact-checking-tommy-v-tammy-ii/